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Military History
Genocide Studies September 22, 2021

Comrades Betrayed

Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler

Michael Geheran

Hosted by Kelly McFall
What claims could Jewish veterans make on the Nazi state by virtue of their having fought for Germany?  How often did Germans treat Jewish veterans differently from Jewish men without …

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Diplomatic History September 14, 2021

Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

Hosted by Grant Golub
What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars …
General History September 10, 2021

The International Brigades

Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

Giles Tremlett

Hosted by Mark Klobas
When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, tens of thousands of young men and women from across the world flocked there to fight against the Nationalist uprising. Though …
Australian and New Zealand Studies September 6, 2021

Tongerlongeter

First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero

Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements

Hosted by Bede Haines
Nicholas, today's guest, explains Australia has no war hero more impressive than Tongerlongeter. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and ’30s, he and his allies …
General History August 30, 2021

Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War

The Making of Frank Prewett

Joy Porter

Hosted by Ryan Tripp
In Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), Joy Porter examines the extraordinary life of Frank “Toronto” Prewett and the history of trauma, literary …
General History August 30, 2021

Making the Forever War

Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism

Mark Philip Bradley and Mary L. Dudziak

Hosted by Catriona Gold
Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021) is a timely collection of articles and essays by Marilyn B Young, edited by Mark P. Bradley …
National Security August 27, 2021

Nonstate Warfare

The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

Stephen Biddle

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
From the Taliban to Hezbollah, armed nonstate actors and civil warfare have dominated the US national security debate for much of the last 20 years. Yet, most analysis shares a …
Environmental Studies August 25, 2021

Red Coats and Wild Birds

How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire

Kirsten A. Greer

Hosted by Matthew Brown
Remapping empire, nature, and scientific enquiry beyond the simple binary exchange between periphery and metropole, Dr. Kirsten Greer demonstrates how ornithology, the study of birds, became entwined with tours of …
General History August 20, 2021

Militarizing Marriage

West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire

Sarah J. Zimmerman

Hosted by Michael Vann
Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo, Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to 1962, Militarizing Marriage West African Soldiers’ Conjugal Traditions in Modern French …
General History August 19, 2021

How the Army Made Britain a Global Power

1688-1815

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In the new book, How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815, published by Casemate, acclaimed historian and commentator Professor Jeremy Black, looks at this neglected, but ultra-important topic. Between …
Japanese Studies August 18, 2021

Japan's Aging Peace

Pacifism and Militarism in the Twenty-First Century

Tom Phuong Le

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Since the end of World War II, Japan has not sought to remilitarize, and its postwar constitution commits to renouncing aggressive warfare. Yet many inside and outside Japan have asked …
General History August 18, 2021

Strategy and the Second World War

How the War Was Won, and Lost

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War, Strategy and the Second World War: How the War Was Won, and Lost (Robinson, 2021), by renowned Historian Jeremy Black …
General History August 18, 2021

Rough Draft

Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance

Amy J. Rutenberg

Hosted by Catriona Gold
Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance (Cornell University Press, 2019) draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during …
Eastern European Studies August 11, 2021

Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe

The Deluge of 1919

Eliza Ablovatski

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolutions, Central Europeans in 1919 faced a world of possibilities, threats, and extreme contrasts. Dramatic events since the end of …
Military History August 10, 2021

Faustian Bargain

The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War

Ian Ona Johnson

Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
German Ambassador Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau believed that Germany and the Soviet Union were locked together in a Schicksalgemienshaft, or “community of fate.” The interaction of these two nations, Brockdorff-Rantzau thought …
Middle Eastern Studies August 4, 2021

Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period

An Anthology

James E. Lindsay and Suleiman Mourad

Hosted by Aaron Hagler
In the West, the study of the phenomenon known as the Crusades has long been dominated by European concerns: European periodization, European selection of important moments and personages, and, most …
Military History August 3, 2021

Asian American Spies

How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory

Brian Masaru Hayashi

Hosted by Jess Moloughney
Spies deep behind enemy lines; double agents; a Chinese American James Bond; black propaganda radio broadcasters; guerrilla fighters; pirates; smugglers; prostitutes and dancers as spies; and Asian Americans collaborating with …
Southeast Asian Studies August 2, 2021

Uneasy Military Encounters

The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand

Ruth Streicher

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Since 2004 the Malay-Muslim majority provinces in the border region of southern Thailand have been wracked by a violent insurgency. Over 7000 people have been killed and many thousands more …
General History July 30, 2021

The United States Army and the Making of America

From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903

Robert Wooster

Hosted by Douglas Bell
The story of how the American military—and more particularly the regular army—has played a vital role in the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States that extended beyond the battlefield is …
General History July 21, 2021

Sheer Misery

Soldiers in Battle in WWII

Mary Louise Roberts

Hosted by Douglas Bell
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran into a new problem …